Cumhuriyetin Kurucu Neslinden Bir Öğretmen Portresi Rifat Rami (Arıncı).

The Republic of Turkey is a result of the conditions of the last century of the Ottoman Empire and especially the one-decade war process. Those born in the last years of the nineteenth century have been witnesses and some of them heroes of this history. Rifat Rami (Arinci) is a figure from this generation. Due to the First World War, his education was left unfinished, he lived a life of captivity, and after the Armistice, he served the National Struggle in his hometown Çorum/İskilip. Immediately after the Battle of Sakarya, he was a teacher. After the proclamation of the Republic, he carried out activities under the roof of institutions such as the Turkish Hearth and Community Houses in order to raise new generations and create a citizen identity, not only in the school environment. He wrote articles and poems about education in the magazine Kurtuluş Yolu (Way of Liberation), which he had a great contribution to publish. He struggled against ignorance and obstinacy, defended unity in teaching, and drew attention to the importance of the school and library. With his activities in the community center, he contributed to the history, language and literature of the region. In the early Republican years, as a member of the community an intellectual and a teacher who realized and tried to fulfill the duty imposed on him. The documents, writings and photographs created by him and preserved by his family also made an original contribution to the emergence of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]